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CAROLS campaigns 2009: First Results

Mickaël Pardé
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Danièle Hauser
Pascal Fanise
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Marc Crapeau
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Monique Dechambre
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Yann H. Kerr
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Ernesto Lopez-Baeza
Antonio Ruis
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Abstract

The CAROLS, L band radiometer, is built and designed as a copy of EMIRAD II radiometer of DTU team. It is a Correlation radiometer with direct sampling and fully polarimetric (i.e 4 Stockes). It will be used in conjunction with other airborne instruments (in particular the C-Band scatterometer (STORM) and IEEEC GPS system, Infrared CIMEL radiometer and one visible camera), in coordination with in situ field campaigns for SMOS CAL/VAL. The instruments are implemented on board the French research airplane ATR42. A scientific campaign with thirteen flights is realized over south-western France, Valencia site and Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) in spring 2009. In order to qualify the radiometer data, different types of aircraft movements were realized: circle flights, wing and nose wags. Simultaneously to flights, different ground measurements were made over continental surfaces and ocean. Results show a good quality of data. For continental surfaces, important Radio-Frequency Interferences (RFI) were observed over a large part of the studied region
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hal-00558610 , version 1 (22-01-2011)

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Mehrez Zribi, Mickaël Pardé, Danièle Hauser, Pascal Fanise, Jacqueline Boutin, et al.. CAROLS campaigns 2009: First Results. 11th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad), 2010, Mar 2010, Washington, United States. pp.49-54, ⟨10.1109/MICRORAD.2010.5559593⟩. ⟨hal-00558610⟩
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